Radhika Apte has showered praise on her Kabali co-star Superstar Rajinikanth in a recent interview. She spoke about Rajinikanth after talking about her bitter experience with a top Telugu hero a few years back.
“On the first day of my Telugu film, this might actually be quite funny. There is this scene, where I am lying, since I am not feeling well or something, and there is a lot of people on the set. Everything is set. This actor walks in, and I don’t even know him and he starts tickling my feet. And he was a big actor. I was told that he is powerful. The natural being that who I’m, I got up and snapped at him, I mean in front of literally everybody, like the whole crew, junior artists, and everybody. I looked at him and said, ‘Don’t ever. Ever do that to me. I was so angry. I kind of emphasized on the ever. He looked at me, and then, he never touched me again,” she recalled.
“I did a Tamil film (Kabali), and with Rajinikanth sir, it never happened to me. He was the nicest and the most wonderful human being. I am not saying that the whole industry is like that at all. There are just a few people like this, and these two particular Telugu films were such bad experiences,” she said about working with Rajinikanth.